How To Install rsync-bpc on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install rsync-bpc on CentOS 8.
What is rsync-bpc
Rsync-bpc is a customized version of rsync that is used as part of BackupPC, an open source backup system. The main change to rsync is adding a shim layer (in the subdirectory backuppc, and in bpc_sysCalls.c) that emulates the system calls for accessing the file system so that rsync can directly read/write files in BackupPC’s format. Rsync-bpc is fully line-compatible with vanilla rsync, so it can talk to rsync servers and clients. Rsync-bpc serves no purpose outside of BackupPC.
We can use yum or dnf to install rsync-bpc on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install rsync-bpc.
Install rsync-bpc on CentOS 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install rsync-bpc using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install rsync-bpc
Install rsync-bpc on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install rsync-bpc using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install rsync-bpc
How To Uninstall rsync-bpc on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the rsync-bpc package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove rsync-bpc
rsync-bpc Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/rsync_bpc
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/5b
/usr/lib/.build-id/5b/0c53db1d4cf2e4a87fbcdc24eb6c18d6126e52
/usr/share/doc/rsync-bpc
/usr/share/doc/rsync-bpc/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/rsync-bpc/README
/usr/share/licenses/rsync-bpc
/usr/share/licenses/rsync-bpc/COPYING
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install rsync-bpc on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.